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I ’m in Las Vegas this week for the annualPMAconference and trade show . I ’ve been here for a few days already , and there ’s one topic that has come up in almost every give-and-take I ’ve had with photographers : Aperture . More specifically , the topic is : “ Where ’s Version 2.0 of Apple ’s icon management and editing app ? ” With the the show starting this forenoon , it seems pretty clear that we wo n’t see anything announced this hebdomad , and the disappointment I ’m hearing is permeant ....

If PMA’08 has any base , it is ‘ point - and - shoot . ’ In the past month — climax with this week ’s show — we’ve had a unquestionable onslaught of summary camera announcements . According to IDC , there were nearly34 million camerassold last year . free-base on the gauze-like number of fresh cameras here at the show , that ’s plain not enough . I stopped counting today after I hit my thirtieth new point - and - shoot photographic camera , and I had n’t yet gotten to the Nikon booth , where six new Coolpix cameras awaited my inspection ....

Back from the podcast - a - day - pace set during Macworld Expo , we devote a fair amount of attention in this post - Expo Macworld Podcast to one of the large announcements to fare out of this month ’s trade show — Apple’sMacBook Air . Jason Snell has spend the retiring hebdomad with the radical - flimsy notebook — see for his review at Macworld.com later Wednesday — and he joins Macworld....

If you ’ve get a Mac with multiple audio output , or even if you just apply a one - yield Mac with a USB - audio accessory , it can be a tussle to swap between your various audio machine . For example , on my Mac Pro , I generally have three or four audio outputs in use at any one time : the digital output in the back ( connected to one of several audio - treat accessories ) , the “ line”-out jackfruit in the back ( connected to my background speakers ) , a USB port wine ( connect to a earpiece amplifier ) , and the headphone Jack-tar on the front ( join , as you might assume , to a set of earpiece ) ....

It ’s been a busy calendar month so far , between last week ’s Macworld Expo and preparations for next week’sPMA showin Las Vegas . ( I ’ll be in Vegas for the show , and be post update from the field ; if you ’re going to be there , flatten mea line . ) While all this is go on , I ’ve been keeping track of a bunch of cool things on the WWW ....

At the end of my “ good of operating system X 10.5 Hints ” session at Macworld Expo last week , an attendant ask me a question about Apple ’s dictionary that stumped me for a moment . Of of course , walking out of the room after everyone had left , a possible resolution come to listen — about five minutes too recent to help her , of course ....

We continue our wrapping - up of Expo 2008 with another Macworld Podcast record from the show floor . In this installment , I ’m joined by senior features editor Kelly Turner and associate editor program Heather Kelly to talk about all things creative . In other Good Book , we highlight some of the image editor program , drawing tools , 3D software and other applications that cater to your creative inherent aptitude ....

Mile - eminent Wi - Fi is taking off . Southwest Airlines and American Airlines severally announced this week that their planes will be tested for in - flight rider Wi - Fi information accession using different access engineering . Southwest announced Wednesday that it will test satellite - delivered broadband Internet access on four aircraft this summer , the airline said in astatement . southwestern passengers with Wi - Fi - enable devices would have Internet access for e - chain armour and Web browse after the tests and subject to approval by the Federal Aviation Administration ....

iTunes motion-picture show rentals grabbed the limelight , but that service was n’t the only digital - culture medium proclamation to come out of Steve Jobs ’ Macworld Expo keynote last workweek . Overshadowed by the news that users could download iTunes rentals from all of the major movie studios was an announcement made by 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulous when he joined Jobs on stage — another Fox - Apple collaboration called iTunes Digital Copy ....

If you , like I , are a buff of shiny gyrate stuff — namely hard drives in all their bod , sizes , and configurations , Macworld Expo 2008 wasdefinitelythe place to be this week . Video , imaging , iTunes solicitation , and even Time Machine are making us all reassess our storage needs . Luckily the fat minds of storage engineers are ready and uncoerced to help us meet our pauperism ....

In all the brouhaha over the announcement and sacking of the iPhone 1.1.3 software update , the universe of the same - total update for the iPod touch and the $ 20 package of app update for the iPod was somewhat overleap . As I packed my mite for the week in San Francisco , I ’ve been able to put the update through its paces . Here ’s what I ascertain :...

We fill up the books on our time from the Macworld Expo 2008 show floor with one last*special Expo edition of the Macworld Podcast . join me to enwrap things up are executive editor Philip Michaels and older intelligence editor in chief Peter Cohen . We babble about Apple ’s announcements — don’t you have to at Macworld Expo ? But Peter and Phil babble out about things they escort from other shower as well ....

Banners cling at Macworld Expo on Monday read , “ 2008 : There ’s something in the air , ” hint wireless news to come in CEO Steve Jobs ’ keynote Tuesday break of the day . Faster cellular service for the iPhone is already on its way later this year , AT&T ’s top executive director reportedly allege in November , but Apple could go beyond that architectural plan and extend high-pitched - speed wireless WAN ( wide - country connection ) capability to its MacBook notebooks and even a rumored “ ultramobile ” computer ....